scan of a newspaper

from October of 1980

what matters is - that happened

even if it took 38 years

But Tom was open to the idea - then- that his replacement could be female

Seriously, they were rooting for this since the '80's, people who hate her for being a woman need to sit their asses down. Even their beloved Tom Baker was into the idea!

besides which, Moffat did a fine job ensuring that there's no canonical basis for objection, which I don't think had really been done before

there really wasn't, but you know how elitest nerds can act.

oh yeah for sure but it's always nice to take away one of their biggest preferred armaments

Yup, exactly. X>